On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 7:34 AM Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:21 PM Lee Bengston <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I tried the procedure below today on a cheap laptop with a weak Celeron > > CPU. > > > Thanks Lee. Can you give us some specs on the computer? clock rate, # > cores, RAM, maybe some disk specs like interface speed or RPM? Did you use > this to feed maps to xastir running on the same machine? > Hey Jason, It's an Asus laptop with a dual core Celeron N2830 CPU @ 2.16 GHz. It was very low end - got it in 2015 from Micro Center for something like $170 or $180 (maybe even less - can't remember exactly). I am indeed feeding maps to Xastir running on the same machine. With the web server running on the same machine it's just a matter of using a geo file in the same format of the online OSM maps that points to the localhost instead of a remote web server. > > Is the tile server process compute-bound or I/O bound? > I'm not sure I fully understand that question, but I think it's compute-bound. > > I've contemplated something similar using an Odroid XU4 which has double > the RAM, clock, and # cores, USB3 instead of 2, Gb ethernet instead of > 100M, etc as compared to the raspberry pi 3. We've used them at work for > virtualization (running VMs via qemu) and it's a pretty impressive little > board for under US$100. There's a new variant called the HC1 ("home cloud") > that forgoes several external connections but provides a SATA connector and > disk mount so it can be dedicated to storage. If it had an HDMI port i'd > probably already have one to make a tile server + xastir machine. I do > have one that I'm using for a home file server and it's solid, as are the > 75 or so XU4s we have at work. > I've been looking for a more powerful Pi alternative, and it seems the reviews of a lot of them cite a lack of stability. Good to know the Odroid XU4 has been solid for you. > > For the expense I'd probably be better off just going with a laptop, but I > can't quite let go of the idea of a linux touchscreen mounted on the dash. > > That does sound attractive. I have a 2009 Netbook with an Atom processor. I may try the local server thing next with that. Lee - K5DAT <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
